THE promiscuous use of the
"anti-Semite" smear that Robert Fisk documents is
hardly new. It's been in use for a long, long
time.

Some thirty years ago, the Canadian publication
United Church Observer printed a graphic photo of
a Palestinian child recovering from the napalm burns
she'd received in an Israeli attack during the Six Day
War.

The Reverend A.C. Forrest, writing in his 1972
work The Unholy Land (The Devin-Adair Co., Old
Greenwich, Conn., page 17), said of Jewish reaction to
the photo:

"Later I did publish one of the pictures in the
United Church Observer, of a little girl
recovering from napalm burns. That, I was told, proved I
was anti-Semitic. To condemn napalm in Vietnam is
alright. To report its use by the Israelis is considered
anti-Semitic."